Long Stratton Mill: 23 March 2019
Time was, a windmill was the last word in technology. Every village and town must have at least one. Wind-driven, it could be sited away from the rivers. It wouldn’t get flooded when the winter snows melted. This was, after all, the Mini Ice Age. And the state of that millstone advertises its long years of use.
I have a choice of two titles for this photo. I’ll go for Decay
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crispina kemp 
An amazing picture! Where did you click it?
Suspenseful and adventurous… 🙂
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It’s Long Stratton Mill, though now it lies outside the town. Long Stratton sits astride the old Roman Road (A140) from Norwich to London via Ipswich.
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Thank you so much for your detailed reply! Your camera has magic, I think… 🙂 ❤
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I thank you. It’s just a common old Canon. Perhaps it’s my eye has magic: the ability to see in the ordinary something of potential interest 🙂
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Amazingly said! Magical eyes… with imagination. ❤
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For some reason, your comment was slammed into the spam-bin. I have retrieved it.
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Thank you. I often keep making the same mistake too… 🙂
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🙂
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You def have a magic eye. And story telling capabilities….
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Aw shucks. & thanks. 🙂
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Wow! Nice shot. It always amazes me how we can find beauty in decay!
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It’s the artist’s eye. 🙂
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I agree with Violet!
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I bow my head. 🙂
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And smile 😉
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There’s a poem and story in this one. Great grist for the Mill. Oh! No pun intended. 🙂
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But the pun should have been intended. It was good.
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Thanks it was genuinely unintended. I realized what I’d written afterwords. It WAS good! 🙂
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It was. 🙂
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Cool shot. The more I learn about water- and wind-powered mills, the more amazed I am that they ever got those things to work in the first place.
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The Romans built some really amazing water mills, linked, loads, all down a hillside.
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Hmm, haven’t run across those yet, I’ll have to look them up.
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It was a documentary I watched. YouTube (I don’t have tv)
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I watch all my documentaries on youtube too.
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Over the years I’ve found some really interesting documentaries. And some lunatic theories!
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It was just yesterday that we had flip phones in our hand! Meanwhile don’t hesitate to check my page out
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Hey. it’s not that long ago since a mobile phone resembled a small suitcase!
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Yea we are advancing at a pace that we can’t have a second to hold. Every year Apple is coming with a new phone along with their competitors as if it is a video game!
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Eventually something will trip them; happens in every race.
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